Brace and coat-stay.



Pa-tented Dec. 19, 1916.

" than WOLF LEVIN SON, OF PHILADELPHIA. PENNSYLVANIA.

' BRACE AND COAT-STAY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedDec. is, rare.

Application filed March 10, 1913. Serial No. 753,297.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Wonr LEVINSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Braces and Coat-Stays, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to coat stays adapted to brace the back of the wearer and to prevent the development of round and stooped shoulders.

The object of my improvements is to provide a coat or jacket with-an invisible and inexpensive brace, which will add but little to the cost of the coat, and will also prevent the coat from wrinkling, creasing or otherwise getting out of shape.

With the above and other objects in view, my invention comprises the construction, combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, it being understood that changes in shape, proportion and exact manner of assemblage may be made without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is an inside view of a coat embodying my invention, such coat being spread out and flat, and the brace and stay shown in dotted lines, and Fig. 2 is a front view, being illustrated as on the body of a person.

Referring to the figures just described, 1 indicates the coat proper, which is constructed in the usual manner, 2 is the lining and 3 the facings. In the present instance the lining is shown to extend all the way down the coat, but this is a matter of indifference, and it is contemplated that such lining could be made to extend only partly down the same or altogether omitted.

Interposed between such lining and the material of the coat proper are two fiat, flexible, and non-elastic straps 4, one passing downwardly over each shoulder, bein sewed together with the outer material and lining if one is used, along the shoulder seam 5, and preferably about midway between the arm pit 6 and the collar 7. At the positions 8 the straps are joined with a transverse elastic band 9 which is adapted to draw the straps 4 inwardly and away from the arm pits. Below said positions 8,

the straps diverge to the positions 10 below the arm pits where they are again joined wlth an elastic band 11. At said positions 10 the straps are shaped to assume a transverse dlrection in alinement with the band 11 in the shape of a belt, whose free ends pass out from under the lining and on top of the facings as at 12, where the straps are terminated by the ends 13. Each of said ends is provided with a button hole 14, adapted to be fastened on a button 15 of the facings. One of the ends is also provided with a button 16 for the button hole of the opposite end of the belt.

With the coat worn by a person as shown in Fig. 2, the belt comprising the horizontal portions of the non-elastic straps and the lower elastic band causes the upper portions of the straps to produce an inward or frontward pressure on the shoulder blades, and the upper elastic band prevents the straps from slipping off the shoulder blades in the direction of the arm pits, and also produces a pressure on the back which tends to cause the wearer to throw his shoulders rearwardly and to expand his chest.

The same purpose will be accomplished when the coat is buttoned and with the straps buttoned on the facings as shown in Fig. 1. With the coat unbuttoned the straps and bands form a stay to prevent the coat from wrinkling, creasing and folding in the back.

If a wearer should object to the straps extending across the facings, the ends could be tucked in or cut short and the straps fastened with the lining along the facings. With this arrangement the wearer will get the effect of the brace with the coat buttoned and the effect of a stay with the coat unbuttoned.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is

In combination with a coat, a brace and stay comprising a pair of straps suspended from the shoulder seams of the coat and having their free ends adapted to be detachably connected with the coat at the front portions thereof, said free ends being provided with means for joining them when detached fro-m the coat, a strap across the back of the coat joined with said suspended straps at about the centers of the shoulder blade portions of the back adapted to cause In testimony whereof I have signed this said suspended straps to diverge therefrom specification in the presence oftwo subscribabove and below the arm pits, and a strap ing witnesses. along the waist line of the back also joined WVOLF LEVINSON. with the suspended straps adapted to form lVitnesses: therewith a belt along the waist line of the HERMAN D. LEvlNsoN, coat. O. lVILsoN ROBERTS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

